Jean Paul Quotes

The grandest of heroic deeds are those which are performed within four walls and in domestic privacy.

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• The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean, sometimes on these six-minute increments. So you're not focused on doing a good job. You're focused on hitting your numbers. It's one reason why lawyers typically are so unhappy. And I want a world of happy lawyers.

  

  Dan Pink
  • World
  • Good
  • Why

• I cannot either change or do anything bad or good to the Syrian people and Syrian citizens.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• I don't think in words; I think in pictures, in images.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Think
  • Words
  • Pictures

• When it comes to finances, immigrants are far savvier than native-born Americans. They keep their expenses low. They save their money.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Money
  • Save
  • Immigrants

• I believe nobody is stronger than the state. So the state would be strong, and we have to work altogether to make the strength of the state.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Strong

• Writing can't be too calculated. My best writing is when I set it aside, move on. It's not when I'm crafting a sentence, thinking about what word should follow another.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Best

• Around the world, climate change is an existential threat - but if we harness the opportunities inherent in addressing climate change, we can reap enormous economic benefits.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • Change
  • Opportunities

• I think comics are really part of The Zeitgeist. They reflect back to us the issues that we're concerned about in the time they are written.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Time
  • Think
  • Reflect

• L.A. is a great place to write because you have a lot of space. I have a big office at home, I can leave the doors open. Flowers bloom all year. But it's unglamorous in all the right ways.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Great
  • Home
  • Space

• I would never try to invalidate someone's opinion of something or the feelings something makes them feel.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Opinion
  • Feelings
  • Try

• Juicero is the first company to make cold-pressed juice something that people can make themselves at home. The challenges to design and engineer a press that can deliver 8,000 pounds of force are tremendous.

  

  Yves Behar
  • People
  • Home
  • Design

• The President then proceeded to read his Emancipation Proclamation, making remarks on the several parts as he went on, and showing that he had fully considered the whole subject, in all lights under which it had been presented to him.

  

  Salmon P. Chase
  • President
  • Him
  • Lights

• Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • Heart
  • Feeling
  • Wisdom

• I don't actually do any exercise, which is really bad. But I wear heels a lot. My theory is that it's painful, so it's gotta do something.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Bad
  • Exercise
  • Theory

• The question is, What type of human do I want to be? How do I want to use my platform? Do I want to be safe, under the umbrella of my white privilege? Or do I want to push back and resist?

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Want
  • Question
  • White

• As much as I love heavy riffs, I like The Eagles, Neil Young, Elton John, Crowded House.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Love
  • House
  • Like

• Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Should
  • U.S.
  • Difficulties

• I'm going to be as sincere as I can in delivering the message I think is right. If people agree, great, and if they don't, I did my best.

  

  Dan Webster
  • People
  • Great
  • Best

• If you can work a brand successfully into the narrative of your product, then it's really cool. Then people actually take the brand up and say, 'My positive experience in your product is directly connected and influenced by this brand and that worked great.'

  

  Max Levchin
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat... Never take yourself too seriously.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Life
  • Help
  • Pain

• This record for the first time - feels like a record that really represents my whole entire life and instead of just a period of my life. And it is really kind of eye opening and it makes me feel really good to hear this record and hear all the years.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• The limits of our military power must be obvious to all, and domestically we are divided as we have not been since Vietnam. So what should we do now? Can we think honestly about those with grievances against the U.S.? Can we think how to conclude the war in Iraq, how to offset the forces of extremism?

  

  James Fallows
  • Power
  • Military
  • Limits

• I didn't realise how my life was changing. When I was 17, 18, 20, I didn't realise how big football was and everything around football. How many people live for football and love football. I was a professional, but I was a supporter.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• The grandest of heroic deeds are those which are performed within four walls and in domestic privacy.

  

  Jean Paul